Commentary: Protect residents? Not under HB 3 Luis Figueroa, For the Express-News April 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Gov. Greg Abbott is often at odds with cities and urban counties. Now, House Bill 3 would establish a committee that could terminate local disaster orders.Smiley N. Pool / Dallas Morning News Texans are combating dual crises: the ongoing fallout from the energy grid failure and the crippling COVID-19 pandemic that just crossed the one-year mark. You only need to look around our state and talk with friends and loved ones to know these two disasters did not impact every Texan equally — when disaster strikes, Black, Indigenous and people of color bear disproportionate harm.